United States v. Willie Earl Johnson and David McGee

On December 15, 1977, four armed men robbed a federally insured bank — the Cherokee Branch of the First National Bank and Trust Company, Macon, Georgia — of approximately $184,000. Subsequently, appellants David McGee and Willie Earl Johnson, along with two other men, were indicted in a four count indictment charging them with three bank robbery counts, 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 2113(a), (b), (d) and 2, and one conspiracy count, id. § 371. McGee and Johnson were tried together and convicted by a jury on all four counts. 1 McGee received a sentence of 25 years imprisonment on the bank robbery counts and…